[Gllug] endian.h

[James Watkins]

I don't know if it's the recommended method but I've been using:

include <byteswap.h>
bswap_16(arg)
bswap_32(arg)
bswap_64(arg)

to do endianness conversion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Brodbelt [mailto:mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: 05 February 2003 02:18
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: [Gllug] endian.h
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm interested in porting a small OpenBSD program to Linux, but I'm
> currently having grief getting parts of it to compile.
> 
> One of the source files makes use of functions like betoh32(),
> letoh32(), and also the 16bit variants of those. On OpenBSD, the
> function prototypes are in <machine/endian.h>, but, though 
> Linux has an
> endian.h file, those functions aren't in it.
> 
> What can I replace <machine/endian.h> with in order to get this to
> compile? Or is it a case of #ifdef'ing out those function calls, and
> replacing them with Linux equivalents?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
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